Four smiling people in professional wear posing together for a photo
Feature Story
April 17, 2024 VOL 26 NO 1

TRIUMPH Program Supports the Latina Community

In the words of Coretta Scott King: “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”

Two smiling physicians
Feature Story
April 17, 2024 VOL 26 NO 1

Firearm Safety Training for Effective Communication

Whether you are an experienced physician, a resident venturing into practice or a medical student, you likely spend much of your time in a hospital or clinic setting.

An elderly Jeannette Munro - photo illustration
Profile
April 17, 2024 VOL 26 NO 1

Jeannette Munro: A Woman Who Broke Boundaries

At a time when female physicians were rare and when many general practitioners questioned the necessity of specialists, Jeannette Munro, MD ’27, who earned her medical degree in the University of Wisconsin Medical School [now the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH)] Class of 1927, became the first pediatrician and first female physician in Princeton, New Jersey.[1]

Two physician assistant students practice surgical skills in a laboratory in the wisPACT@UW-Platteville Program
Events & Outreach
April 17, 2024 VOL 26 NO 1

PA Program Meets Wisconsin's Need for Rural Providers

Virginia “Ginny” Snyder, PhD, PA ’01, wasn’t seeking another major professional challenge when she attended the Tri-State Regional Health Care Summit at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in 2017.

Third-year medical student Sonam Dolma and her dad, Gyurmey Namgyal, at Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wisconsin
Student Life
April 17, 2024 VOL 26 NO 1

MD Student Turns Hardship Into Opportunity

Sonam Dolma’s journey to medical school began in Bir Tibetan Colony, a Tibetan refugee settlement in Northern India, where she was born in 1997. Her father, Gyurmey Namgyal, and his brother had fled there on foot from Eastern Tibet to escape the Chinese Communist regime.

Group of Headshots -Class Notes
Class Notes
April 17, 2024 VOL 26 NO 1

Class Notes and Alumni Updates From Pediatric Oncologists